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Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

"You can only scalp a customer once, but you can give him a haircut every two weeks"-Barber's Maxim.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This Queens beer hall preserves a German culture and language that is all but lost.

One of the last taxidermists in New York City.